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"The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too."
"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
"You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking."
"White collar conservative flashin' down the street, Pointing that plastic finger at me, Hoping soon my kind will drop and die, But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high."
"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
"Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation."
"No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't use it. Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs."
"Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds."
"Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries."
"No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free."
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money."
"The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom."
"Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it."
"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves."
"Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them."
"Forgetfulness is a form of freedom."
"If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves."
"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect."
"When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."
"Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires."
